Berries, lots of them.
The past weeks we've had beautiful hot weather, like high summer.
Strange things happened in the garden.
The lettuce was rained away... just crushed under the hard fast large drops.
They'd grown high up the rose section, twisting between the branches of the two kind of plants, reaching high up towards the apple tree.
It looked like just another year of growth would make my whole garden one complete berry bush.
A few day ago I tasted a few berries and had the sour taste crawl through my mouth behind my ears. Not my way of enjoying the richness of nature. I'm not a sour-lover. No lemons for me, unless I can get them straight from the tree in Limone Italy during a wonderful summer, like we enjoyed so many years ago. The farmer took joy to invite me in his fruitgarden and taste the fruit the lovely little village was named after.
I was 15. Managed to understand the language and was shy, but determined to learn to speak it too.
They were devine.
So a few days ago these berries were sour, but when I tasted them today they were not sour, but tasted like red berries should taste... for me.
I got a box and started taking them off the bushes.
Each time when a branch was empty, pruning it immediately.
Soon I had to fetch a large bowl, because there seemed to be berries under each leaf.
It was amazing!!
As always I threw some ripe berries in other parts of the garden.
Did so last year and it resulted in a bush at the other side of the gardenpath.
It took me over an hour to get all the ripe berries in the bowl, and still there is a lot on there that need to grow and ripen.
Weighing the harvest: 1,5 kilo!!!!
Never had so many berries.
It took me another hour to get them from the twigs and ready for consumption.
Some berries are used fresh in yoghurt, some have been put in the freezer, so the kids can take a box when they want.
And they all want their share. LOL!
Never had so many berries. But also never had berries so early in the season.
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